Guo Chunfeng's voice was extremely coarse, as if a thousand sabers were scratching his vocal cords. "Therefore, in order to completely annihilate Li Yao and intensify the hatred of the Tian Yuan Realm for the Blood Demon Sector, you decided to kill two birds with one stone through a shocking assassination?"
"Exactly." "Yes."
Lu Zui smiled. Every wrinkle on his face was glittering. "Did you know? Young people like you, both Li Yao and you, no matter how amazing your talents are and how excellent your performance is, you all have the same greatest weakness, which is that you are too clear-minded, too easy to be seen through, and too easy to be manipulated!
"Vulture Li Yao likes to lurk, infiltrate, and decapitate best. Whatever the problem is, sneaking into the enemy's heart is always his first choice.
"Taking advantage of his fixed mindset and his wariness of the Children of the Nether World, I drafted twelve response plans. As it turned out, he fell into my trap when I changed to the third plan. He couldn't help but step into my rhythm and be led to the square of the Federation by me!
"You are the same. Ah Feng, you are very good. You have been victorious in every battle over the past decades. There is no spy of the demon race that you can't catch. But as a result, you have been raised to be too proud and persistent.
"You may seem sleepy and sloppy on the surface, but I can sense the pride in your bones, the feeling that you are the only sober one when everybody else is drunk!
"I was certain that, as long as you suffered a minor setback in the hands of Vulture Li Yao, you would burst into fury and bite him like a rabid dog!
"As I expected, the two of you put on a thrilling show under my control. In the end, you killed him in person. Even if you both realized what was going on at the last moment, was it going to help? It was too late. Everything had been settled. It was too late! "
Guo Chunfeng clenched his fists and gnashed his teeth. "I completely understand it now. In order to achieve your purpose, not only did you manipulate Li Yao and me in secret, you also sacrificed tens of thousands of innocent compatriots. Is such an approach any different from that of the Imperium of True Human Beings, which regards ordinary people as weeds?"
"Of course there is a difference!"
Lu Zui declared resolutely. "The Imperium of True Human Beings regards ordinary people as weeds and ants, enslaving and exploiting them blatantly! But I'm different. We 'patriots' treat ordinary people as our compatriots and targets to be protected! "
"Of course I'm pained by the death of so many of my compatriots, but this is a price we have to pay. It's like a warrior who has to sacrifice himself in order to win a battle!"
"Ten thousand compatriots sounds like a lot, but if you think about it carefully, our Federation has tens of billions of people! How many tens of thousands of people had been sacrificed? Not even 0.1%! "
"If one dies, we can save ten thousand. Isn't that a good deal?"
The more he talked, the more excited he became. Waving his dry, skinny arms, he roared, "Compared to the Cultivators who are quick-minded and have remarkable computational ability and can deduce the changes in the decades to come, the ordinary people are like stupid lambs. They do not know how to think, have no foresight, or make any decisions. They will only be pushed by their own weakness, cowardice, and greed to slide into the abyss step by step!
"As Cultivators and their protectors, it is our responsibility to educate them, wake them up, and reform them so that they can walk on the right path. It is for their own good. It is for the benefit of their offspring!"
Dumbfounded, Guo Chunfeng was dazed for a long time. He found it hard to believe. "Killing innocent people is for their own good?"
Lu Zui opened his arms and said sincerely, "Ah Feng, I know that it must be a great shock for you. Perhaps, in your eyes, I am an unpardonable devil right now!
"I don't want to argue with you about right and wrong. The so-called 'competition of beliefs' is not something that can be settled with a few words!
"I only want you to think about it calmly, rationally, and soberly!
"With everything coming to this point, it is impossible for you to give out the Jade Crystal Disc. Even if you can, so what?
"You are planning to expose my scheme, aren't you?"
Guo Chunfeng sniffed. "What else can I do?"
Lu Zui smiled. "Then? Have you thought about the consequences?
"Once the incident is exposed, it will be the greatest scandal in the history of the Federation. Great chaos will be raised among the leadership of the Federation and the people. The entire Federation will probably collapse!
"In the meantime, when the Flying Star Sector learns the cause and effect of the whole incident, they will be scared of us, too. It will cast a heavy shadow on the future cooperation between the two parties!
"It is needless to mention the Blood Demon Sector. When Jin Tuyi learns that Li Yao, the 'special envoy' who came to discuss the surrender after the internal conflicts were settled and the terms of peace proposed, has been killed by us, the Blood Demon Sector will not trust us anymore, either!
"The final result will be that the cooperation of the three Sectors will fail completely. We will be three lone islands again, unable to resist the expedition of the Imperium of True Human Beings in a hundred years!
"Is this the result that you want to see?"
Guo Chunfeng was silent.
Lu Zui's eyes were glittering. His voice was even lower and full of charm. "I'm definitely not lying to you. Through Elder Nether Spring, we have successfully grasped tremendous intelligence about the Blood Demon Sector and the fatal 'Demon God Virus'. As long as we spread the virus in the Blood Demon Sector on a large scale, we may have a chance to occupy the Blood Demon Sector without bloodshed! Without paying a huge price, the long-cherished wish of our ancestors for five hundred years will be fulfilled in our hands!
"Either the Federation will be destroyed, or our motherland will rise unstoppably! Is it so difficult to make a choice?
"Come on. Join us and become a real 'patriot'. Avenge your parents and all your compatriots who were killed in the beast tide outbreak!"
Guo Chunfeng seemed to be struggling with himself. Veins were bulging out of his temples and bouncing rapidly. He struggled to say, "What if I say 'no'?"
"You won't have a chance."
Lu Zui sighed and said, "Although you claim to be the strongest Jin Dan of the Heaven's Origin Sector, everybody knows that it refers to your talents in four fields. You are almost an omnipotent Cultivator.
"However, omnipotence also means that you have to allocate a lot of time to four different kinds of training. You may not be the most distinguished one in any of them.
"The four of them are all wearing the Crystal Suit and ready to attack. You have no chance of winning against any one of them when you are heavily wounded, not to mention the four of them together."
Guo Chunfeng sneered, "Are you going to destroy me?"
Lu Zui extended a finger and waved it gently. "Don't ever think that wiping you out of your physical body is the same as destroying you! You are the supervisor of the first division of the Secret Sword Bureau after all. Killing you for no good reason will have a great impact. So, I have arranged a new identity for you. Here. Take a look at this jade chip. "
He tossed a jade chip over.
Guo Chunfeng scanned it with his telepathic thoughts. His face immediately changed color. "Abyss?"
"Exactly."
Lu Zui smiled. "Did you know? In fact, Abyss does not exist. It is just a smoke grenade that Elder Nether Spring threw out to cover the Children of the Nether World. But for me, such a nonexistent Abyss is too convenient!
"Your parents are both dead. You are a war orphan. You have risen miraculously in the past decades and are one of the most powerful Cultivators below the age of a hundred in the Federation. The role of Abyss is almost tailor-made for you. What do you have to say?"
Guo Chunfeng gnashed his teeth. "I am not Abyss!"
Lu Zui smiled. "I believe you. Then what? Who else will believe you?"
Guo Chunfeng's eyes were bloodshot, and he breathed heavily.
"Ah Feng, I know that you are not scared of death, but we are not talking about your life and death. You have a wife and a daughter."
Lu Zui tapped the table and said slowly, "Think about them!"
Guo Chunfeng's aura seemed to have turned into thousands of invisible blades that pierced through the four Core Formation Stage Cultivators and stabbed into Lu Zui's chest. "You dare touch my wife and my daughter?"
"Don't get me wrong. Of course, I wouldn't do such a shameless thing."
Lu Zui said peacefully, "What I mean is, if you die as Abyss, everything will be over for you, but what about them?
"Think about it. In your wife's eyes, you have always been the trump card of the Secret Sword Bureau and the hero of the Federation, and she is the wife of a hero. How much has she sacrificed for decades in silence for the role?
"If one day, she suddenly learns that her husband is not a hero but a spy of the demon race, and that she has slept in the same bed with a stinky monster for decades …
"What do you want her to think?
"And your daughter, Xiaohe, right?
"As I recall, the little girl is the most standard hot-blooded young man. She has always been proud of her identity as a human being of the Heaven's Origin Sector. Recently, she even planned to join the Union Army and march to the Blood Demon Sector, didn't she?
"If such a little girl suddenly learns that her father is a demon and that half of the blood flowing inside her body is demon blood …
"What do you want her to think?
"Right now, you know the relationship between the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector. Once a great war breaks out, the hostility between the two parties will be a hundred times stronger.
"By then, everybody around them will know that they are the wife and daughter of a demon. As the saying goes, gossip is a fearful thing. How do you want them to live their lives?
"Your wife is still young. She has more than a hundred years of good life ahead of her. It is needless to say that your daughter is still a flower. Do you want them to live the rest of their lives with such shackles on their backs?
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